Agenda for 2011 Annual Meeting

COMMITTEE AR020

PASSENGER RAIL EQUIPMENT AND SYSTEMS INTEGRATION

January 25, 2011;  3:45pm–5:30pm (Marriott)

AGENDA

1. Welcome – Patrick B. Simmons, Chair
2. Introductions of Members, Friends, and Visitors

3. Old Business
                (a) Consideration of minutes

(b) Chairman's perspective on 2010
4. New Business
                (a) Membership Rotation

                (b) Planning for mid-year meeting
                (c) Committee web site and communications

5. Presentations

(a) “A Simplified Approach for Assessing Initial Fire Development and Spread in Passenger Rail Vehicles”;  Brian J. Meacham and Nicholas A. Dempsey (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), and Matthew Johann, Jeffrey Tubbs and Kurt Schebel (ARUP)

(b) “Hierarchical Network Model of Safe High-Speed Railway Operation”;  Yanhui Wang, Xuemei Xiao, Limin Jia, and Chenchen Zhang (Beijing Jiaotong University

6. Concluding Remarks – Patrick B. Simmons

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Patrick B. Simmons, Director, NCDOT Rail Division pbsimmons@ncdot.gov (919) 870-9522

Eloy E. Martinez, Senior Consultant, LTK Engineering Services emartinez@ltk.com (857) 472 0029